Top Student at Their Peak-Chapter 931 - 334: The Most Perfect Testing Ground
Michael Roddy thought the woman’s acting was excellent.
Almost at the same time, Zheng Xiweng also thought the acting of the two CEOs from Google and Microsoft was excellent.
Zheng Xiweng did not directly call the two CEOs. Instead, he also used the Tai Chi Chain’s meeting function to schedule a video conference with them.
During the meeting, he conveyed Qiao Yu’s requests to these two current leaders of the company.
To be honest, in Zheng Xiweng’s view, regardless of what the future holds for Microsoft and Google, or whether they have indeed suffered significant losses, at the very least, David Hopkins and Brad Smith should be grateful to Qiao Yu.
After all, it was because of Qiao Yu that both of them have firmly secured their positions within their respective companies.
Making the major shareholders behind the company start to believe that the company cannot operate without their leadership.
To put it simply, even if the founders of these two companies wanted to return to take charge of the big picture, it would be completely impossible now.
Perhaps some people below might still have idol feelings, but there is simply no one on the board who would support those old-timers.
Because those founders can no longer offer more benefits to the capital behind them.
Even if Bill Gates were to give all his wealth away to the shareholders, it would still be impossible.
The reason is actually quite simple.
The major shareholders behind these tech companies have already secretly started to lean towards Huaxia.
Although the assets have not been entirely transferred to Huaxia, the rules of holding them have already begun to change.
Zheng Xiweng also knew that although Xi Yu Technology has not gone public, it has already transferred ten percent of its equity.
This is also why Qiao Yu is very wealthy now. After all, this ten percent equity was obviously sold at a premium.
Although Xi Yu Technology can be said to be earning a fortune daily, it would take at least fifty years for the investors to earn back the cost of that ten percent equity.
In fifty years, the technology patents currently held by Xi Yu Technology will have already expired.
As for the company assets, there are just a few servers set up in some server rooms, and the hardware is not worth much.
So from a capital perspective, this deal is purely a money-losing venture. Yet, they scrambled over each other to subscribe.
They didn’t even expect Qiao Yu to place new patents with Xi Yu Technology next. And indeed, that’s how it was.
Because before selling that ten percent share, Qiao Yu had already registered a new technology company.
This clearly told everyone that future new technologies would definitely be operated by the new company.
But this money still had to be spent.
It could be understood as a token of allegiance, or simply as paying for peace of mind.
When capital stops being greedy, it must have sensed a certain crisis.
Nonetheless, the shares of Xi Yu Technology, in a certain sense, function like gold to these capitalists, serving as a kind of hedge asset.
Among them, David Hopkins and Brad Smith naturally played the role of intermediaries.
This alone has secured their positions at Google and Microsoft as stable as Taishan.
So although Zheng Xiweng previously felt emotionally that Qiao Yu was a bit too domineering,
when he actually faced the two of them, he only felt that Qiao Yu was right.
Since the other side had already made a choice, it would be better to make that choice even more thoroughly.
If these two were betraying the interests of Huaxia Company, Zheng Xiweng would feel deeply abhorrent.
But since they represented the interests of the West University Company, it even seemed somewhat endearing.
The reason why Zheng Xiweng thought their acting was great was that during the holographic video conference, when he represented Qiao Yu in making demands to the two companies, the expressions and responses of the two were remarkable.
Silence, difficulty, embarrassment, hesitation, conflict...
Then complaints, all sorts of difficulties.
But he couldn’t be bothered to argue with them any longer and directly announced the end of the meeting.
Both of them sent him messages privately, expressing a willingness to discuss in detail separately, and without waiting, each hoped to talk immediately...
Ha...
Honestly, when he saw both private messages coming in almost simultaneously, Zheng Xiweng was truly amused.
As expected, when he began private discussions with both of them, their attitudes immediately changed.
What Qiao Yu wanted was almost offered on a golden platter, though in name, it sounded quite noble.
Microsoft and Google were already partners with Xi Yu Technology, after all. It was just about signing two contracts that imposed practically no constraints on Xi Yu Technology.
They even drafted the contracts themselves. After all, Xi Yu Technology didn’t even have a full-time legal advisor.
Yes, it only took one morning for Zheng Xiweng to settle this matter.
No back and forth, and not much persuasion required.
By after five o’clock Huaxia time, Zheng Xiweng had access to two databases.
Given this time, it was still the middle of the night at West University.
This meant that the company’s legal department and research institute had people working overtime early in the morning to draft the contracts, categorize the needed data, and then share it with Xi Yu Technology.
Based on this speed, if anyone were to continue to say online that West University had a lax attitude or low work efficiency, Zheng Xiweng would be the first to disagree.
It was too fast, faster than he could imagine. Without the cumbersome processes of board reporting, review procedures, and expert value evaluation, the matter was resolved directly.
All the difficulties mentioned during the previous chat between the three of them seemed to suddenly vanish into thin air.
Moreover, their statements were filled with righteousness.
They needed to contribute to the progress of overall human civilization. This is the social responsibility that international companies like Microsoft and Google should inherently bear!
